Reid Collins
“There goes the Palestinian vote.” Uncle Pundit never fails to impale the obvious and listening to the President’s endorsement of the Sharon plan for the West Bank and Gaza, he was right on as usual. That the President might abandon…
Make no mistake. Pornography is now as acceptable as cigarette smoking in a 1936 film. That one of the Hilton sisters could achieve worldwide acclaim because footage of a one-time boyfriend and herself in delicto made it onto the Internet…
Lord Palmerston’s oft-summoned axiom about no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests, was uttered in 1848 and serves to excuse all manner of political conduct. Alliances made, broken, mended and amended. Ask the negotiators at Brest-Litovsk. Or ask Tony…
It works! Terrorism, that is. When applied in the right place. And the implications of the Madrid train bombing are enormous. Rather than vent their anger in the direction of terror, the Spanish electorate ousted their own conservative government in…
“Maybe it’s a victory for the little guys who lose money in the market because of these kinds of transactions..” Clifford Odets, 1935? No, Chappell Hartridge, 2004. By now the world knows it was Hartridge, the Martha Stewart trial juror,…
To: Spectator editors From: Reid Collins What are you people thinking of? A lot of stuff about Kerry, Dean, Haiti, Iraq, cluttering up the site Monday and not a word about that which endureth forever: Sex. Not just sex any…
In one of those quirks of fate, Janet Jackson has become the mod squad’s point girl in the battle for decency. She is taking the arrows for a lot of scurrilous folk we’ll never know. And somewhere a flatulent horse…
Now, what do all those folks who watch the Super Bowl for the commercials have to say? Wasn’t it fun? Especially if the kids were allowed to stay up and watch at least the first half of the game, ’cause…
Given the price of tickets to professional sporting events, it should come as no surprise, in fact no news, that an owner is accused of assaulting a fan. It is a common occurrence at the box office. But this was…
Naw. That doesn’t make a palindrome, but it makes as much sense as Napoleon reflecting on a vacation on Elba. Or Howard Dean wondering why the wheels came off. The casuistry necessary to wring logical prophecy out of either Iowa…
